The clarion., 1887-10-19

street. OF the vast majority who are
yictimized you hear not one word One
great stock firm goes down, and whole
columns of newspapers discuss their
fraud, or their disaster, and we are pre-
sented with their features and their BIZ
ography. But where one such famous
firm sinks 500 unknown men sink with
them. The great steamer goes down and
all the little boats are swallowed in the
same engulfment. Gambling is gambling
whether in stocks or breadstuffs, or dice
or race track betting. Exhilaration at
the start and raving brain, and shat
tered nervous system, and a sacrificed
property, and a destroyed soul at the
last. Young man, buy no lottery tick
cts, purchase no prize packages, bet on
no baseball games or yacht racing, have
no faith in luck, answer no mysterious
circulars proposing great income for
small investment, shoe away the buZ-
yards that hover around our hotels trying
to entrap strangers. Go out and make
an honest living. Have God on your
side and be candidate for heaven. Re
member all the paths of sin are banked
with flowers at the start, and there are
plenty of helpful hands to fetch the gay
charger TO your door and hold the stirrup
while you mount. But further on the
horse plunges to the bit in a slough mex
tricable. The best honey is not like that
which Jonathan took on the end of the
rod and brought to his lip. but that which
God puts on the banqueting table OF
Mercy, at which we are all invited to
sit. :. was reading of a boy among the
mountains of Switzerland ascending
dangerous place with his father and the
guides. The boy stopped on the edge OF
the cliff and said: There is a flower /
mean to get" .'Come away from there, I"
said the father; '.you viii fall off -
full flower" and the guides rushed to-
ward him to pull him back, when they
heard him say, Il almost have it, :" as he
fell 9, 1000 feet. Birds of prey were seen
few days after circling through the air
and lowering gradually to the place
where the corpse lay. Why seek flowers
off the edge of a precipice when you may
walk knee deep amid the full blooms of
the very paradise of God? When man
may sit at a kings banquet why viii he
go down the steps and contend for the
grlstle and bones of hounds kennel?
''Sweeter than honey and the honey
comb, - says David, sis the truth of God. !"
with honey out of the rock would
have satisfied thee,'' says God to the re-
creant. Here is honey gathered from the
blossoms of trees of life, and with rod
made out of the wood of the cross / dip
it up for all your souls.
The poet Hesiod tells of an ambrosia
and a nectar, the drinking of which
would make men live forever,
and one sip of this honey from the
Eternal Rock will give you immortal life
with God. Come off of the malarial
levels of a sinful life. Come and live on
the uplands of grace where the vineyards
sun themselves. On, taste and see that
the Lord is gracious. Be happy now and
happy forever. For those who take
| different course the honey will turn to
gall. For many things / have admired
Percy Shelley, the great English poet,
but deplore the fact that it was great
sweetness to him to dishonor God. The
poem 'Queen Nab has in it the malign-
| ing of the Deity. The infidel poet was
| impious enough to ask for Rowland Hill s
Surrey chapel, that he might denounce
the Christian religion. He was in great
glee against God and the truth. But he
visited Italy, and one day ON the Mediter-
ranean with two friends, in boat which
was twentyfour feet long, he was COM
ing toward shore, when an hours squall
struck the water. 4 gentleman stand
ing on shore, through glass, saw many
boats tossed in this squall, but all outrode
the terror except this one, that in which
Shelley, the infidel poet, and his two
friends were sailing. That never came
ashore, but the bodies of two of the oc-
cupants were washed upon the beach, one
of them the poet. A funeral pyre was
built on the sea shore by some classic
friends, and the two bodies were con-
sumed. Poor Shelley! He would have
no God while he lived, and he probably
had no God when he died. ''The Lord
knoweth the way of the righteous, but
the way of the ungodly shall perish"